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1. Attacks on IT systems: categories of motives / Georg Disterer -- 2. Wireless security / Faisal Kaleem and Kang K. Yen -- 3. Analysis, development and deployment of statistical anomaly detection techniques for real e-mail traffic / Gianluca Papaleo ... [et al.] -- 4. Forensics challenges for...

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